Teachers will: Use an online bookmarking site. Apply the use of online bookmarking to teaching practice.
Use Thinkfinity to search for high quality online resources for use in teaching and learning. Develop a collection of high quality resources accessed through online bookmarks.
Online Bookmarking with Delicious.com
Bookmarking with Delicious provides you with access to your bookmarks 24 hours a day 7 days a week from any computer. No more limitations set by bookmarks saved to one computer. With Delicious you can access your bookmarks anywhere you have Internet access and network with people who have similar interests.
Click on the link below to view the video on Screencast.com for a tutorial of Delicious basics, from account set up to use. Use the toolbar on the bottom of the video screen to enlarge the viewer to full screen view and adjust sound levels. Delicious bookmarking basics
Go to: http://delicious.com Create a free account. Refer to this PDF handout for Delicious page anatomy.
Determine whether you will use Delicious for personal productivity or as a resource for teaching and learning. (Or create more than one account and do both!) Create categories. Save bookmarks, descriptions, and tags to your Delicious site.
Thinkfinity.org
http://www.thinkfinity.org/ Click on the link below to view the video on Screencast.com for a Thinkfinity basics, from account set up to use. Use the toolbar on the bottom of the video screen to enlarge the viewer to full screen view and adjust sound levels.
Use Thinkfinity.org to discover high quality resources you will want to share with students or use in your teaching practice.
Save Thinkfinity resources, information and lessons in your Delicious site along with sites you discover using the search engines and search strategies from Module 1.
Reflections:
Discussion post:
How will you use Delicious to impact teaching and learning? How can you use Delicious to improve personal productivity?
Post a comment in response to a discussion post for someone you do or do not know.
Discussion page: Share one resource with a VCoP member. (You may obtain names on the discussion tab posts.) Share one resource you discovered and plan to use from Thinkfinity.org. Provide the URL (web address) along with a brief description of the site and a brief explanation of how you plan to integrate it into teaching and learning practice. Explain what outcomes you expect as a result of integrating this resource. Everyone should feel free to add comments to all posts.
I, of course will share comments with you, as always! It is time to broaden the discussion. We are all content area experts. Please share your expertise!
Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have at vcop4k12@gmail.com. Donna
Module 3: Online Bookmarking and Thinkfinity.org
Goals:
Teachers will:Use an online bookmarking site.
Apply the use of online bookmarking to teaching practice.
Use Thinkfinity to search for high quality online resources for use in teaching and learning.
Develop a collection of high quality resources accessed through online bookmarks.
Online Bookmarking with Delicious.com
Bookmarking with Delicious provides you with access to your bookmarks 24 hours a day 7 days a week from any computer. No more limitations set by bookmarks saved to one computer. With Delicious you can access your bookmarks anywhere you have Internet access and network with people who have similar interests.
Click on the link below to view the video on Screencast.com for a tutorial of Delicious basics, from account set up to use. Use the toolbar on the bottom of the video screen to enlarge the viewer to full screen view and adjust sound levels.
Delicious bookmarking basics
Go to: http://delicious.com
Create a free account. Refer to this PDF handout for Delicious page anatomy.
Determine whether you will use Delicious for personal productivity or as a resource for teaching and learning. (Or create more than one account and do both!)
Create categories. Save bookmarks, descriptions, and tags to your Delicious site.
Thinkfinity.org
http://www.thinkfinity.org/Click on the link below to view the video on Screencast.com for a Thinkfinity basics, from account set up to use. Use the toolbar on the bottom of the video screen to enlarge the viewer to full screen view and adjust sound levels.
Thinkfinity
Use Thinkfinity.org to discover high quality resources you will want to share with students or use in your teaching practice.
Save Thinkfinity resources, information and lessons in your Delicious site along with sites you discover using the search engines and search strategies from Module 1.
Reflections:
Discussion post:How will you use Delicious to impact teaching and learning? How can you use Delicious to improve personal productivity?
Post a comment in response to a discussion post for someone you do or do not know.
Discussion page:
Share one resource with a VCoP member. (You may obtain names on the discussion tab posts.) Share one resource you discovered and plan to use from Thinkfinity.org. Provide the URL (web address) along with a brief description of the site and a brief explanation of how you plan to integrate it into teaching and learning practice. Explain what outcomes you expect as a result of integrating this resource. Everyone should feel free to add comments to all posts.
I, of course will share comments with you, as always! It is time to broaden the discussion. We are all content area experts. Please share your expertise!
Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have at vcop4k12@gmail.com.
Donna